William M. Kahane's Biography

William M. Kahane has served as chief executive officer and a director of our company since February 2013. Mr. Kahane has also served as co-chief executive officer of RCS Capital Management since April 2013. Mr. Kahane has been active in the structuring and financial management of commercial real estate investments for over 35 years. In 2007, Mr. Kahane founded American Realty Capital with Nicholas S. Schorsch, the executive chairman of our Board of Directors, to provide sponsors and advisors of direct investment programs with strategic and financial advice in connection with the formation, distribution, maintenance and liquidation phases of ...

William M. Kahane has served as chief executive officer and a director of our company since February 2013. Mr. Kahane has also served as co-chief executive officer of RCS Capital Management since April 2013. Mr. Kahane has been active in the structuring and financial management of commercial real estate investments for over 35 years. In 2007, Mr. Kahane founded American Realty Capital with Nicholas S. Schorsch, the executive chairman of our Board of Directors, to provide sponsors and advisors of direct investment programs with strategic and financial advice in connection with the formation, distribution, maintenance and liquidation phases of their offerings. Mr. Kahane served as an executive officer and director ARCT, and an executive officer of the ARCT advisor and the ARCT property manager from their formation in August 2007 until the close of ARCT's merger with Realty Income Corporation in January 2013. Mr. Kahane has served as a director of ARC RCA since its formation in July 2010. He also had served as an executive officer of ARC RCA and the ARC RCA advisor from their formation in July 2010 and May 2010, respectively, until March 2012. Mr. Kahane also has been a director of PE-ARC and the president, chief operating officer and treasurer of the PE-ARC advisor since their formation in December 2009. Mr. Kahane has served as a director of ARC NYCR since its formation in December 2013. Mr. Kahane has served as a director of NYRT since its formation in October 2009 and had served as an executive officer of NYRT from October 2009 until March 2012 and as an executive officer of the NYRT advisor and property manager from their formation in November 2009 until March 2012. Mr. Kahane served as a director of ARC DNAV and an executive officer of ARC DNAV, the ARC DNAV advisor and the ARC DNAV property manager from their formation in September 2010 until March 2012. Mr. Kahane served as an executive officer of ARCT III, the ARCT III advisor and the ARCT III property manager from their formation in October 2010 until April 2012. Mr. Kahane has served as a director of ARC HT since its formation in August 2010 and as president and chief operating officer of ARC HT, the ARC HT advisor and the ARC HT property manager from August 2010 until March 2012. Mr. Kahane has served as a director of ARC HT II since March 2013. Mr. Kahane served as a director and executive officer of ARCP and as an executive officer of the ARCP advisor from their formation in December 2010 and November 2010, respectively, until March 2012. Mr. Kahane served as an executive officer and director of ARCP and the ARCP advisor from their formation in December 2010 and November 2010, respectively, until March 2012. Mr. Kahane was reappointed as a director of ARCP in February 2013. Mr. Kahane has served as a director of PE-ARC II since August 2013. Mr. Kahane has served as chief executive officer and president of ARC HOST since August 2013 and as director of ARC HOST since January 2014. Mr. Kahane has also served as co-chief executive officer of the ARC HOST advisor, as chief executive officer of the ARC HOST property manager and as a member of the board of managers of the ARC HOST sub-property manager since August 2013. Mr. Kahane also has been an interested director of BDCA, since its formation in May 2010 and, until March 2012, was the president of BDCA. Mr. Kahane also served as president and chief operating officer of the BDCA advisor from its formation in June 2010 until March 2012. Mr. Kahane has served as a member of the investment committee of Aetos Capital Asia Advisors, a $3.0 billion series of opportunistic funds focusing on assets primarily in Japan and China, since 2008. Mr. Kahane began his career as a real estate lawyer practicing in the public and private sectors from 1974 to 1979. From 1981 to 1992, Mr. Kahane worked at Morgan Stanley & Co., specializing in real estate, becoming a managing director in 1989. In 1992, Mr. Kahane left Morgan Stanley to esta